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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-and-hamas-are-sliding-toward-ground-battle-1.355023
Palestinian Rocket Assault on Israel
(Ha'aretz) Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel - Over the weekend, over 100 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza at Israel, and hundreds of thousands of Israelis took shelter in secure areas. On Thursday, a 16-year-old Israeli was critically wounded after Hamas militants fired an anti-tank missile at a school bus. Had the bus been full, it surely would have set off another war. The claim by Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri that the people who fired the missile were unaware that the target was a school bus is ridiculous. As far as Israel is concerned, the targeting of the bus means a red line has been crossed; this triggered a wide air assault on militant targets in Gaza.